Dr Oli Williams, Professor Martin and Shona Agarwal have also had an abstract accepted for the ESHMS Conference entitled Ideological, Pragmatic and Tokenistic: Patient participation within a collaborative research organisation in England.

Liz Sutton has also been invited to present a poster on the HISLAC literature review and qualitative study at the HSRUK Conference in July 2018 in Nottingham.

Other Academic News

Dr Roland has been selected to be on the steering group for the National Paediatric Early Warning System Programme Board for NHS England.

Dr Mackintosh and Professor Armstrong have been selected to edit the twenty-seventh monograph of the Sociology of Health & Illness journal – their topic is Managing uncertainty in healthcare: revisiting and advancing sociological contributions. A call for papers is available on the journal's website. The collection will appear both as a special issue of the journal and in book form towards the end of 2020 / early 2021.

Dr Krockow has been selected for a new Research Leadership Programme by the University of Leicester. The programme of six months includes regular coaching, specific training events and networking opportunities to promote a successful career in academia.

On 22nd March 2018, Dr Williams, with colleagues from the GW4 Alliance, hosted the Rethinking Healthy Spaces workshop at the University of Bristol. This project aims to bring together perspectives from different subject areas to develop a better understanding of how spaces are designed to be healthy, and how collaborative approaches can enhance spatial design for health. Dr Mackintosh also attended as an invited expert.

On 26th March 2018, as the culmination of a Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) project, Dr Williams hosted the launch of his new comic at Attenborough Arts Centre. Dr William’s Act With Love (AWL) art collective collaborated with illustrator Jade Sarson (winner of Myriad Editions First Graphic Novel competition with For the Love of God, Marie!) to visualise his ethnographic research on weight-loss services run in a deprived area. They created a comic that tells the story of how stigma associated with body weight and size gets under the skin and is felt in the flesh. To accompany the comic, Dr Williams and Joe Williams, the founders of the AWL art collective, created a series of limited edition, hand-numbered and stamped screen prints. The screen prints were exhibited at Attenborough Arts Centre as part of the DeStress Fest between 26 March – 22 April 2018. At the launch event, Dr Williams gave a talk about the project, followed by a panel discussion with Jade Sarson, Liz Sutton, and a member of one of the weight-loss groups that Oli observed as part of his research. The talks from the evening were filmed and will be made available in due course.